Chapter 166

It was as if the energy within its body committed to an action before its mind or body did, and with the dread that I felt every time something dangerous is about to hit me, my current state made me close to unhittable.
That was beside the point, however, since it only took the hippo a second to slam its body onto the unsuspecting feline that was making sure to watch my every move rather than keeping track of anything else that might attack it.
"Too trusting..." I muttered under my breath and watched it get flung into the air and getting impaled by the horn of another beast.
Seeing that the hippo wasn't going to be much of a problem anymore, I left it to do its own thing and searched around for more victims that I could slash with my blade.
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A little bit over a kilometer away lay an enormous creature with a body that reached close to 150 meters in length. Its eyes we large and oval while its pupils were like two sharp slits that narrowed down on anything that caught their eyes.
While its eyes looked and seemed like a wild animal's, it contained a glint of intelligence one wouldn't see in any other beast, especially the smaller and weaker ones.
Two enormous fangs could be seen protruding out of its maw, while a forked tongue left its mouth almost rhythmically at different intervals and releasing a sound recognizable to most humans of my era.
As it slithered through the forest, its scales hit many trees, creating friction but never creating a fire in the process. However, one could say that the reflective surface of the creature's scales was another story since their luster alone made it hard for anything to look at it directly.
Its scales were made out of a spotless white without a speck of dirt or mud on them even though they were constantly moving through those very things.
It was as if its scales were dirtphobic {Author's note: Just a word I made up. Think of it as being 'Hydrophobic' but with things that might make it dirty}
It slithered its way around the trees, swerving from right to left, yet never finding itself entangled within an area no matter which way it moved.